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Toxicofera (Latin for "toxin-bearers") is a
proposed clade of
scaled reptiles (squamates) that
includes the
Serpentes (snakes),
Anguimorpha (monitor lizards...
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Iguanians are now
united with
snakes and
anguimorphs in a
clade called Toxicofera.
Genetic data also
suggest that the
various limbless groups – snakes,...
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lizards and snakes, some 200
million years ago (forming a
single clade, the
Toxicofera). However, most of
these ****tive
venom genes were "housekeeping genes"...
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along with
iguanians and snakes,
constitute the
proposed "venom clade"
Toxicofera of all
venomous reptiles. The
oldest widely accepted member of Anguimorpha...
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tissue of the target.
Evidence has
recently been
presented for the
Toxicofera hypothesis, that
venom was
present (in
small amounts) in the ancestors...
- T. N. (2012). "The
structural and
functional diversification of the
Toxicofera reptile venom system". Toxicon. 60 (4): 434–448. Bibcode:2012Txcn...60...
- as a
distinct group of lizards, more
closely related to the
venomous Toxicofera. The
relationships of the
Amphisbaenia to
other lizards have long been...
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common ancestor of
modern snakes and the
other reptiles of the
clade Toxicofera, many of
which have
fully functional front and hind limbs. Due to the...
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formulation and/or scoring". Therefore,
Pythonomorpha could be
synonymous with
Toxicofera according to the definition.
Ophidiomorpha is a
proposed clade composed...
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widespread use.[citation needed]
Venom evolved just once
among all
Toxicofera about 170
million years ago, and then
diversified into the huge venom...
